Appeal in wrestling club suit to cost county more

4:11 PM,
Jan. 23, 2014

Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold

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The $63,358 cost for a successful defense of a Rutherford Wrestling Club lawsuit against Sheriff Robert Arnold will increase as plaintiffs pursue their appeal.

Former Rutherford County Sheriff's Major Bill Kennedy, the club founder who intends to run as a Democrat for sheriff, filed the appeal last fall and added 3,000 pages of transcripts last week.

In the original lawsuit, he accused Arnold of having deputies and inmate workers raid the club's building at the Blackman Middle campus on the west side of Murfreesboro and confiscate mats, other equipment and the records of youth wrestlers ...